the ultimate guide for a florida state PINK girl

Congratulations to all the ladies who made our Fall 2015 Street Team, and a big thank you to everyone who applied! We can’t wait to see all of you at our events throughout the semester! Meet our Squad:

Naomi Elizée, Senior

Going into her senior year, Naomi has a love for fashion like no other! This summer she interned at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York City and has interned with other major companies such as Seventeen Magazine and Rent The Runway. She is a Retail Merchandising and Product Development Major and is absolutely addicted to shopping! She is super excited to start working with the PINK Reps this semester & PSA: after she graduates she’s pretty much gonna rule the world of fashion. Thank you Naomi for always being willing to help out no matter what, we love you!

Samantha Hall, Junior

Samantha is beyond excited to start her Junior year of college, and we are insanely proud to have her on our team! She is a Communications major and is involved in her sorority Alpha Omicron Pi as well as the Lady Spirithunters at Florida State. She is also happily engaged (omg yay true love!) and her sole obsession is the PINK FSU Collegiate Collection (us too, girl!!!!!!!!!) Samantha, thank you so much for promoting Campus Showdown so heavily, we love you!

Carrie Norton, Junior

Carrie is completely psyched for her junior year, and we are so lucky to have her! She is very involved in the Multicultural Greek Council and serves as Council Liason, and she is a member of Theta Nu Xi. Majoring in Biology isn’t easy, but loving PINK is!! Carrie thank you for being so sweet to everyone and staying on top of things, we love you!

Scarlett Roy, Sophomore

Scarlett hails from the land of Virginia (aka she is a long way from home) but her heart is firmly based in Tallahassee! She is a part of the Marching Chiefs, as well as a member of the National Honorary Band Fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi. She also loves exercising ALMOST as much as she loves PINK! Scarlett, thanks for your positive attitude and sparkling personality, we can’t wait to work with you this year! We love you!

Tara Lawson-Corley, Sophomore

Tara is basically a mega journalist/fashion expert/cool cat. She is a Retail Merchandising and Product Development major (hoping to double major with Communications) and is a Staff Writer and Media Committee for HerCampus FSU. In love with the PINK Brand, Tara aspires to become a Campus Rep, and much like Naomi, is probably going to rule the world of fashion. Thank you for your dedication to the brand and fresh ideas- We believe in you/love you Tara!

Kelsey Waggoner, Freshman

Kelsey is pretty amazing and is going after what she wants in life! As a Retail Merchandising and Product Development Major and current pledge of her sorority Kappa Delta, she can’t wait to get plugged into Florida State and make her mark. Her favorite thing about PINK is that the brand is not afraid to be different and daring, but also makes comfy clothes. Thank you for you hilarious tweets during Campus Showdown, we can’t wait to see what wonders the next 4 years bring you Kelsey! We love you!

Abbey Lowdermilk, Freshman

Another Out-Of-State cutie, meet Abbey! This girl is spunky and has insane determination, and we are so thankful to her for extending our message to the incoming Freshman class, which ultimately led us to win the PINK Welcome Week visit from PINK for the 2nd Year in a row! A member of student council in high school and co-President of her club “Stand Up Against Cancer”, Abbey is excited to be majoring in Computer Science and getting plugged into Florida State! We can’t wait to see all that you accomplish during your time at FSU Abbey! Thank you for your persistence and sass, we love you!

Hayden Shearer, Freshman

Hayden is basically adorable, just look at her boots! As an incoming freshman, Business Major, and pledge of her sorority Kappa Alpha Theta, Hayden can’t wait to work with the PINK Reps this semester! She works hard and is consistently trying to come up with cool ideas for us and keeps us updated on things going on around campus. We think she is going to do amazing things in her next four years here! Thank you for your creativity Hayden, we love you!

First things first, Welcome to another AMAZING year at Florida State University! We can’t wait to get to know all of you and have so many great things planned for the Fall 2015 semester. If you are not familiar with the VS PINK on Campus program, allow us to give you a bit more background on who we are. Each year at Florida State, two girls are selected from the student population to represent Victoria’s Secret PINK on campus to their peers and gain experience with one of the most well known fashion brands in the world. For the 2015-2016 school year, Jamie and I were lucky enough to be chosen for the experience of a lifetime, and we can’t wait to tell you about it!

This past week, PINK flew us out to Columbus, Ohio for Brand Training where we received a detailed overview of what it means to be a PINK Campus Representative. We flew from Tallahassee to Atlanta to meet with the other Campus Reps, then caught the connecting flight to Columbus where we rode a bus to the Hilton Easton hotel. Jamie and I picked up our goodie bags, quickly changed into our varsity crews (so adorable!) and headed back downstairs for the Welcome meeting in the Ballroom.

After the Team Welcome and eating dinner, PINK threw a party for us at the hotel with the famous PINKAPALOOZA and PINK Claw Machines as well as a DJ, Cotton Candy, and Back to School props to use in our social media promotions! To end the night, we all watched Crazy Stupid Love together!

The next day, we planned our events, worked with social media groups, and learned all about current PINK product. Our favorite part, however, was shopping night! PINK took us out to dinner at Bon Vie Bistro and allowed us early access to PINK Friday, which was an amazing experience!

Jamie and I got to know so many other great PINK Reps during Brand Training at schools like Florida International University, Ole Miss, and Auburn! We can’t wait to work with these ladies throughout the year and we are so excited to see all the PINK fun that they bring to their campuses!

The final day of brand training was bittersweet! Of course we couldn’t wait to take everything that we had learned back to Florida State, but we were also sad about saying goodbye to all of our awesome new friends! The morning consisted of focus groups and an amazing candy bar, but after that we went back to the airport and headed for Atlanta!

On Instagram the other day, we made a post about our new Snapchat profile and told all of you that if we got to 100 friends on Friday, we would announce something HUGE! Of course all of you know that Florida State University is the official PINK Class of 2015 Welcome Week winner and we are pleased to finally be able to give everyone a date- It will be Friday, August 28th! We can’t wait to see everyone at our Welcome Week Event, and as of right now over 2.5k students have RSVPed on Facebook. The more we learn about the event, the more we will let you know, but as for right now we have one more BIG piece of news…

CAMPUS SHOWDOWN 2015!!! As we previously released, the Campus Showdown will take place August 26th-September 4th for 10 days of crazy FUN!! That means on August 28th we will be sharing a lot of info with you about the Showdown at the Welcome Week event. We strongly believe that 2015 is the year that Florida State will win Campus Showdown but we need your help, Seminoles. This year will be quite a bit different from last year because we will have a 6 day long qualifying round which will require PINK Nation membership, an Instagram round, a Snapchat round, and a Twitter round, as well as the “Final Championship” which will be a tap race. The winner will receive a CRAZY campus party with a celebrity guest & concert, PINK models, bounce houses, and SO much more!!

We can’t wait to tell you more, so stay tuned on our social media handles @vspinkfsu on Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat as well as our Facebook page “Victoria’s Secret PINK at Florida State University!”. Share us with your friends! See you soon, Noles!

Avery and Katherine headed over to Columbus, Ohio, July 31- August 2, for Brand Training where the Home Office of Victoria’s Secret PINK is located. They had a great time learning the ins and outs of being Campus Reps and can’t wait to put on events for FSU this year. They enjoyed all the activities planned and meeting Campus Reps from 74 other schools around the country.

July 31-

Avery and Katherine arrived at Renaissance Hotel in Downtown Columbus. There they met the other Campus Reps and learned about the brand.

After settling in, PINK threw a great party on the rooftop for the Campus Reps. There were vending machines and claw machines filled with goodies, a DJ, bra and panty cookies, and blowup PINK letters!

Katherine playing with the Claw Machine

Avery posing with a blowup PINK Dog

Avery and Katherine even made friends with the other Florida Campus Reps from FAMU, UF, UM, and USF!

Delicious cookies!

August 1-

Avery and Katherine had a really early morning. They woke up and did sunrise yoga on the rooftop of the hotel. Unfortunately they got rained on and had to move to a room inside. Yoga was the perfect start to a really great day!

After a day of meetings, all of the Campus Reps went to Easton for a Shopping Night. First stop was Cooper’s Hawk for a delicious dinner.

Then, Avery, Katherine, and the other Campus Reps had a private shopping event at the PINK store!

Avery and Katherine loved browsing the store for great items!

Inside the PINK store

Avery and Katherine bought some great PINK items!

The night ended with a Sleepover Party at the Hotel. Avery and Katherine watched Bridesmaids with the other Campus Reps while lounging on PINK bedding. They had great treats including s’mores and popcorn.

August 2-

Avery and Katherine went to Victoria’s Secret PINK’s Home Office! They loved being in the place where PINK dreams become a reality.

Katherine and Avery outside PINK’s Home Office

After lunch, Avery and Katherine headed to the airport to fly home.

Downtown Columbus from the plane!

Avery and Katherine can’t wait to apply what they’ve learned the past few days. Look out for some great events FSU!

I just wanted to thank you for a great year and let you know that I have enjoyed every moment of being your Victoria’s Secret PINK Campus Rep! Thank you to everyone who came out to our events and followed us on social media! Now introducing Katherine Stokoe, our 2013-2014 campus rep with Avery Durant. Katherine was on our street team this year and I know she will do an amazing job!

PINKLOVE,

Brianna Barnebee

Hi, I’m Katherine, and I’m so excited to be the new campus rep for the 2013-2014 school year! I’m a Hospitality Management major, and a certified wedding planner with a passion for planning all kinds of events.I love watching sports especially baseball, traveling and hanging out with my friends! I love Florida State and can’t wait for a great year with all of my fellow PINK Seminoles!

Each week PINK will be asking you to submit pics of each letter that spells out PINK (one letter per week for four weeks). Each pic submitted equals one submission into the sweepstakes to win a $500 shopping spree. Submissions can be made via the PINK Nation app or through Instagram by using the letter specific hashtag (details below). Submissions will be viewable through the App or on PINKNation.com (mobile and desktop). Beginning 5.27, winners will be selected and girls can create their own special P-I-N-K wallpapers by selecting their favorite letter submissions.

So… what can I win?

Your campus could win the right to host PINK’s most popular party of the year, and of course obvious bragging rights.

Let’s talk strategy.

The Showdown starts with the 56 PINK Collegiate schools, then it’s up to you to vote, rally and campaign to make sure your college gets into the number one spot!

GO NOLES!

Gimme specifics – I can handle it.

You can vote once per day, per round. The rounds change over at 12 noon EST – yes, technically you could vote once before noon and once after noon that day. To really put the pressure on, the rounds are shorter than last year, so you’ll need to pay more attention than ever before.

Breaking a sweat yet?

Get this: this year, we’re introducing epic new social challenges for the Fab Four. What are they? You’ll just have to wait and see. But we will say: be on your game.

Victoria’s Secret PINK at Florida State University invites you to participate in our:

PINK Sweats Drive

now until April 19th at 5 p.m.

Any article of clothing is welcome and all items will be donated to the Tallahassee Salvation Army.

Please help us reach our goal of 2000 clothing items! Last year we collected 1370 items!

Drop off locations include: Strozier, Plato’s Closet, Sorority Houses & PINK Events. If you are part of a sorority, the sorority with the most donations will receive 200 coupons for their members. If you are a part of an organization that would like to participate in this competition email vspinkfsu@gmail.com.